Blogpost 1: Kleptomaniac

Nowadays we live in a world that are full of interesting things,like beautiful dress ,different gadgets ,shoes and other stuff that could make us happy.Buying different stuff doesn't mean that they need it because for other people they buy for sake of their happiness.Most of the students are the best example of this. Unfortunately not all people can buy those things because there are people who are not that rich to afford those things.But there are people who are temp to steal because these can help them to have lots of money and to survive in this world.

In our town in Quezon we have a dry goods store, when I was in our house, I heard my mom that there are children who stole a pair of flip flops and I ask my mom why those kids at their young age are stealing things? then my mother said son they are the children who's not guided well by their parents.I was a little bit shock and I ask my self " if  I'm in their situation, what will happen to my future?".

I've research about stealing and there's a topic that caught my attention, it talks about kleptomania. Kleptomania is a disorder that temp people to steal things that cannot benefit them.In an article entitled,"Kleptomania Mental Disorder Moral Failing or Excuse", from the site Lifepaths360.com,Magda DH says that," kleptomania certainly cannot be seen as a moral failing: one of the defining characteristics of kleptomania is full awareness of the illegal and immoral character of the compulsive stealing". Having that kind of illness does not make any sense to use it as an excuse to the law because stealing things is considered as a crime.If other people use this illness as an excuse to steal things many thief  use this to avoid the punishment.This illness also is considered to be the woman's crime and the best example of it is Lucy Torres , Winona Ryder and Linsay Lohan these three are confirm that has illness of kleptomania and they call kleptomaniacs.I wonder why they intend to steal things that they can actually buy?.

Not only woman have this illness but also men, there is also a gender bias with regards to this disease that when a woman steal other people will think she has kleptomania and they tend to bring her into a psychiatrist,while man is the other way around.Mental care health professionals think that kleptomania may serve as an emotional release for individuals who are clinically depressed which means that they are doing that because they have a problem, may to their family , to their friend, but there is no direct evidence that such health condition are definitely the cause of kleptomania .


Many people says that stealing things are immoral and a miss behavior of other people, but actually it not a lack of moral principles of people, it is about a problem a problem in our brain.In an article entitled,"Kleptomania Causes and Treatment" , from the site Howstuffworks.com, Jon Grant says that, "this is cause by the defect in the molecule that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin who is responsible for regulating moods and emotional balance" .That's why many psychiatrist as they observe says that sometimes a people who have this illness are suffering depression, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder.This observation makes an arguments weather kleptomania is a psychological disorder or a mental illness.There are lot of observation in both sides but there is no direct evidence to prove their observation.Regarding on what kleptomania is,there is a problem that we to solve and that is on how to give this people a treatment.It is hard for them to give treatment if they don't know what is the real cause of this.I think this problem takes lots of years of observation to know what is the real cause.So for my suggestion know first the problem because its hard to solve a problem if you don't know what is the real cause of the it.



Base on what I read weather kleptomania is a mental disorder or not.I think the best way to do is to help parents to know or to inform them the observation that I have in this blog post.Cause if it happened to them there is also a possibility that it may also happened to us, even if it is rarely in the general population at least you are aware that this might happen.